[834] As to the significance of this fact cf. below, § 529 ff.
[835] W. H. Furness, 3d, The Island of Stone-Money.
[836] On the large theistic material of the Pelews see Frazer, Adonis Attis Osiris, pp. 386, 428 ff., with references to J. Kubary, "Die Religion der Pelauer" (in A. Bastian's Allerlei aus Volks- und Menschenkunde).
[837] Cf. below, § 577.
[838] Exogamy is said to exist in the atoll Lua Niua, in the Lord Howe group; the population is described as Polynesian (Brown, Melanesians and Polynesians, p. 414 ff.); Dr. Brown thinks it probable that exogamous classes formerly existed in Samoa, to which place the Lua Niua people, he holds, are ultimately to be traced.
[839] Certain septs (among the Telugus and others) are named from inanimate (some times artificial) objects.
[840] The usages mentioned in article "Burma" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, iii, 24, do not necessarily show totemism.
[841] The Iroquois stock occupied an immense territory, partly in Canada, partly in the region now including the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas.
[842] Cf. Gatschet, Migration Legend of the Creeks, p. 24 ff.
[843] The Wyandots, who were allied to the Iroquois, dwelt in the district north of Lake Ontario.